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Forget about those baby names books--buy this definitive and billion times more accurate dictionary of first names and give the best name to your son or daughter!

It's also indispensable for giving appropriate and meaningful names to your fiction characters.

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English language dictionary

Collins English Dictionary is a comprehensive word reference with definitions for world, regional and dialect English. Improve your vocabulary with 130,000 entries and over 200,000 definitions, including the latest words to enter the language. Usage notes give advice on using the right word in the right place, and thousands of etymologies trace the roots of modern English. There are also thousands of entries for people and places and in-depth coverage of scientific and technical vocabulary. All words, definitions, and usage notes are based on the Collins Corpus - our 4.5 billion-word database of today's English - making it an authoritative and up-to-date word reference.

(1991 edition) I bought this one nineteen years ago and have used it constantly since then. Amazing dictionary: and as if the brilliant coverage, lucid but never superficial descriptions and enlightening etymology wasn't enough (btw the etymology also helps me to remember the meanings of words), the binding of this 1700-page thing is practically indestructible. I've got an Italian dictionary in the same size, and after a year or two it was starting to fall apart – this one is reaching its second decade of merciless service and the only sign of wear are the black marks on the right edge after my first adolescent and by now middle-aged thumbs.

Very nice reference for those intererested in the meaning of names for your or other's babies. Very neat addition to the library.

Great single volume dictionary. Contains history of words and many archaic, foreign and scientific words and terms.
This is till our go-to dictionary, decades later.

I obviously haven't read all 2,000 pages of this, but it is a very good reference.

Although there are many more recent dictionaries, this is the latest decent one I've been able to find that shows recommended and to-be-avoided hyphenation points. For that reason, if no other, it's remained an invaluable part of my bookshelf!

Best of the baby name books; the most comprehensive and scholarly publication I know as of 2001.

A basic essential!

least failure rate of any reference source I use (prior to google - and you have to filter the results with google)

A wonderful book that not only gives thorough etymologies but explains the history of the popularity of names; under Elmer: "This has been used as a given name in America since the 19th century, in honour of the brothers Ebenezer and Jonathan Elmer, leading supporters of the American Revolution." Has appendices of Arabic and Indian/Pakistani names.

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4 volumes..